A person with AIDS is more likely to catch diseases that healthy people usually don’t catch. What is the term?
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Apr 26, 2010
A person with AIDS is more likely to catch diseases that healthy people usually don’t catch. What is the term for those types of infections?
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e w
Apr 26, 2010
They are called opportunistic infections, because they arise when the opportunity presents itself with the individual’s diminished resistance, because of his/her compromised immune system.
This includes viral and bacterial infections, as well as cancer and also fungal infections.
All of us are normally exposed to these infections/organisms, but our bodies, when we’re healthy, can defend themselves with our immune systems.
essentiallysolo
Apr 26, 2010
the person with aids is immunosuppressed or immunocompromised, and the infections would be opportunistic.